The cold bit at Leo's cheeks as he trudged in from the biting wind. He almost missed the package leaning against his door. It was addressed to "Ms. Eleanor Vance," the lady who used to live here. He grabbed the box, a warmth already starting to blossom inside him.

He was practically skipping as he closed the door, already anticipating the contents. The package felt light, and the possibilities were endless. His smile widened as he considered everything it could be.

Ripping the box open, he spied the contents. Inside, was a collection of high-end art supplies, exactly what he needed. His eyes widened, and he let out a little laugh of pure joy. "Yes!" he exclaimed, his voice full of glee.

Emotion: delighted

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.80 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion delighted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 delighted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the delighted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the delighted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
!0.611
🤩0.536
de0.530
ecstatic0.527
🎉0.524
Suppressed:
S-0.687
😞-0.562
ness-0.471
😔-0.385
😥-0.379